ScottManDeath Posted January 9, 2008 Posted January 9, 2008 EDIT by Hinckley: This is what happened earlier. I am the "glitch in the system" that was referred to by SW4J. I was testing some front page functions in invisible threads and forgot that people are subscribed to it. Rest assured that there is no phishing scam and I apologize for the silly topics that came through. They were just strings of words with no further meaning. :-$ I am subscribed to some forums and today, I got a few weired emails: Clicking on the link in the email with the phising address, I got asked to login, which I gratefully declined. Checking EB from my bookmark confirmed that something phishy was going on. Note that I censored the ip address. I also reported this post so the mods see it. ScottManDeath,Hinckley has just posted a new topic entitled "Breaking News!!" in forum "Frontpage News". The topic can be found here: silly stuff edited out by Hinckley :-$
Starwars4J Posted January 9, 2008 Posted January 9, 2008 You didn't like my e-mails? :'-( All kidding aside this is definitely phishing and definitely not sponsored by EB in any way (Edit by Hinckley: except in reality it was just Hinckley being a jackass, also not endorsed by EB :-$ END EDIT). From the wording and general attitude it's clear that it's a young kid, (EDIT by Hinckley: Hey!!! End Edit) most likely one who was banned and wants to get back in. Whoever it was is sad and really needs a life. We'll get on this, thanks for reporting it. And feel free to PM one of us with the IP of the sender.
ScottManDeath Posted January 9, 2008 Author Posted January 9, 2008 You didn't like my e-mails? :'-( All kidding aside this is definitely phishing and definitely not sponsored by EB in any way. From the wording and general attitude it's clear that it's a young kid, most likely one who was banned and wants to get back in. Whoever it was is sad and really needs a life. We'll get on this, thanks for reporting it. And feel free to PM one of us with the IP of the sender. U can haz PM ;) Though I don't know about any vulnerabilities in the forum software, I assume that there was some effort be done, since accessing the subscription tables in the db should not easily be done.
Starwars4J Posted January 9, 2008 Posted January 9, 2008 U can haz PM ;)Though I don't know about any vulnerabilities in the forum software, I assume that there was some effort be done, since accessing the subscription tables in the db should not easily be done. Yes, I've brought it up. Also the choice of topic titles for jipay matches an old title for him... thanks for the PM ;-)
Starwars4J Posted January 9, 2008 Posted January 9, 2008 Well it's been resolved :-D Just a glitch in the system that resulted in e-mails that shouldn't have been sent. Please disregard, but trust that the e-mails were, apparently, from EB, just not intentional. Just ignore the e-mails, and nothing to worry about. I'll close this since it was resolved!
Hinckley Posted January 9, 2008 Posted January 9, 2008 EDIT by Hinckley: This is what happened earlier. I am the "glitch in the system" that was referred to by SW4J. I was testing some front page functions in invisible threads and forgot that people are subscribed to it. Rest assured that there is no phishing scam and I apologize for the silly topics that came through. They were just strings of words with no further meaning. :-$
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